Barzelatto Veronica

Barzelatto Veronica, a woman-owned small business and sole proprietorship based in Potomac, Maryland, provides translation, interpretation, and foreign language advisory services to the Department of State as a prime contractor operating exclusively under full-and-open (non-set-aside) blanket purchase agreements. The vendor competes on language services across administrative, diplomatic, public health, and security cooperation activities worldwide, with performance centered in Washington, D.C.

Barzelatto Veronica operates through a narrow, focused customer base. The Department of State Bureau of Administration accounts for 41 of 47 prime awards and $887 thousand of the $891 thousand combined potential value across the vendor's federal footprint — effectively 99.5% of recent activity. The remaining three customer agencies (the Department of State itself and the Department of State Office of Language Services) represent fewer than one percent. This concentration is structural: the vendor holds four consecutive annual multiple-award BPAs with the Bureau of Administration, each carrying a ceiling of $100 thousand to $250 thousand, issued on October 1st of each year through September 30th cycles from 2021 onward. The current active BPA (awarded October 1, 2024, ceiling $250 thousand, expiring September 30, 2025) has generated nine task orders to date; the prior-year BPA (expiring September 30, 2024, ceiling $150 thousand) supported eight calls; the 2023 cycle generated eleven calls against a $150 thousand ceiling; and the 2021 cycle produced three calls under a $100 thousand ceiling.

Task orders against these BPAs range from $195 to $13,731 per call, with recent call magnitudes typically between $600 and $8,400. The vendor has invoiced $241 thousand against $891 thousand in combined potential value — a 27% obligation rate reflecting the on-demand nature of BPA call work. Activity averaged five to twelve awards per year from 2021 through 2023, dropped to five awards each in 2024 and 2025, and has been flat in recent years rather than growing. All 47 awards are prime contracts; the vendor operates with zero subcontract exposure, indicating a single-person or very small team delivering language services directly.

Barzelatto Veronica holds no parent vehicles (GWACs, agency-wide IDIQs, GSA Schedules) and does not sit on consortia. The entire federal footprint comprises task orders issued against State Department Bureau of Administration BPAs, all designated as non-set-aside, full-and-open procurements despite the vendor's woman-owned small business status.